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Space-Time? No thanks...
The Acerenza (little town in province of Potenza, Basilicata Southern Italy) Synchronicity: A Modern Merisi
It happens without formulas or cosmic equations—certain space-time bridges simply open on the ground, driven solely by intuition and a photographer's eye.
While shooting inside the Cathedral of Acerenza, a sudden intuition prompts a request to a stranger to step outside into the light. He is a painter, born in Milan. No notary was on hand to certify the surreal alignment of chance, but the frame captures what words cannot: an uncanny, living double of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, mirroring the exact penetrating gaze, the brow, and the geometry of the beard from Ottavio Leoni’s historic portrait.
This is not a digital trick; it is an analog excavation. Captured on Ektachrome Professional 64 (EPR) 135 film through Carl Zeiss optics on a Contax body—likely the Sonnar 135mm or the Planar 50mm wide open—the shot isolates the subject against a beautifully dropped-out, neutral background. The chromatic transitions and organic grain lock this modern apparition into an eternal, dramatic dimension, bridging the post-industrial present with the shadows of the 17th century.
Ps. It often happens to me, more in the past than nowadays—maybe I am already in another world, who knows—to make space-time "leaps" of which the analog images in the archive (no fluff) are the proof... I must be one of those who have a "license", I wouldn't know what else to add...
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